Sunday, September 01, 2013

The Maps of the Week

Forecast.io has created a beautiful heatmap of planet Earth and MapBox
has quickly put together an animated version on the map. The Forecast.io Temperature Map animates through global temperatures recorded on August 10, 2013.

The map uses the new Quicklsilver
map from Forecast.io. Project Quicksilver is a high resolution
real-time map of global temperature, that updates every hour. GeoTIFF
images of the map can also be downloaded from Forecast.io.

One very noticeable growth area in interactive visualizations over the
last few months has been the sudden trend in maps that show the age of
buildings.

CitySDK
has created a map that shows the age of a staggering 9,866,539
buildings in the Netherlands. Buildings on the map, throughout the
country, are colored on the map by their age of construction. You can
even click on any of the nearly 10 million buildings to view the building's exact
year of construction.

Germany's national railway operator DB Bahn has released a live Google
Map showing the location of all the transit network's trains in
real-time.

The DB Bahn Live Map
animates all the trains' markers to show the current position of the
trains in near real-time. The positions of the trains on the map are
calculated from the drive-in or exit reports at stations and from the
latest train messages.

Users can click on individual trains on the map to view what time the
train left its last station and when it is expected to arrive at the
next station.